VCE English & Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Ransom by David Malouf

Study guides

• Insight Comparative guide to The Queen and Ransom
• Insight text guide
• SmartStudy guide
• Pearson comparative guide with Invictus
• Comparative guide with Invictus

Reviews

• Australian Book Review
• Bookseller & Publisher
• New York Times

Analyses

• A subtle revisioning of an ancient epic
• 'Only we humans can know': David Malouf and war
• Singing it anew: David Malouf’s Ransom 

Interview

• David Malouf on Ransom in conversation with Bill Ashcroft, UNSW [26 min] 

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Reckoning by Magda Szubanski

Study guide

• CAE Book Group Discussion notes

Reviews

• The Conversation
• The Age
• The Australian 

Interviews

• Magda Szubanski on Reckoning, Text Publishing [2 min 45 sec] 
• Magda Szubanski reading from Reckoning, Text Publishing [3 min] 
• Magda Szubanski at The Wheeler Centre [1 hour] 

Further resources

• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The 7 stages of grieving written by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman; dramaturgy by Hilary Beaton
• Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to The 7 stages of grieving and The longest memory

Analyses

• Performative lives, transformative practices
• Fact and fusion
• Performing Indigenous Australian women

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The hate race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
  • Also available as an ebook (access at the Library)

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to The Hate Race and Charlie's Country

Reviews

• Antipodes
• Australian Book Review
• The Spectator

Interviews and other talks

Focusing on The Hate Race:

• Maxine Beneba Clarke talks about her new book, The Hate Race (2016) [3 min 28 sec] 
• The cumulative effects of racism: it eats away at the essence of your being (2016), The Guardian
• On The Hate Race (2019), The Garret Writers on Writers podcast [46 min] 
  • Teachers' Resources for The Garrett: Maxine Beneba Clarke
• HEY GIRL: Growing up with Maxine Beneba Clarke (2016), Wheeler Centre [1 hour 5 min] 

On writing, poetry, race and racism, and more: 

• Open page with Maxine Beneba Clarke (2006), Australian Book Review
• Maxine Beneba Clarke on being a Black female author on the school curriculum (2023), The University of Melbourne [56 min] 
• Maxine Beneba Clarke named inaugural Poet in Residence (2022)
• Uplifting Black Lives Matter Around the World (2021), Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Centre
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Sareeta Domingo & Maxine Beneba Clarke (2021), Wheeler Centre [18 min] 
• Be what you can't see: one writer's journey (2019), TEDxSydney [12 min] 
• TikTok Dance' by Maxine Beneba Clarke [2 min 23 sec] 
  • Red Room Poetry 30in30

Analyses

• On writing and risk
• Shortcomings of the heart; racism in Australia

Further resources

• SLV Catalogue

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to The Hate Race and Charlie's Country

Reviews

• Eureka Street
• The Guardian
• Metro Magazine
• New York Times
• Sydney Morning Herald

Analyses

• My Movie, by Rolf de Heer
• David’s Country

Interview

• Rolf de Heer – a chasm of difference between an Australian story and an Australian storyteller (2018), Screen Hub

Further resources

• SLV catalogue
• Film research guide

Copy of the text

• The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham

Study guides

• Insight Comparative guide to The Crucible and The Dressmaker
• Council of Adult Education - Book discussion notes

Reviews

• New York Times

Analysis

• Real life: fiction & film

Interviews

• Q&A with Rosalie Ham (2000), The Sun Herald
• An accidental author (2001), The Age
• Crafting success: Author Rosalie Ham talks The Dressmaker [3 min] 
• Rosalie Ham on the amazing success of The Dressmaker [16 min] 
• Rosalie Ham interview with Bruno Lettieri (2016) [1 hour 21 min] 

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
  • eBook available to download for free via Project Gutenberg
  • Also available online at the Library as ebooks
  • Also available online as an audiobook 

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to Photograph 51 and My Brilliant Career 
• Miles Franklin, My brilliant career notes

Reviews

• The Observer
• The New Republic

Analyses

• Gender, genre and Sybylla's performative identity in Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career
• Reading My Brilliant Career

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue